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Mark Sengstbratl; Theresa Haas

HEAR SAY (HÖREN SAGEN)

Co.Lab Beta Now
Tina Frank (AT); Marcel Dziewulski (DE); Theresa Haas (AT); Ozan Tezvaran (TR)

Co.Lab Beta Now investigates what happens when something fleeting — a word, a gesture, a sentence — is translated into material form, and what role the translating tool plays in that process.
A person speaks and receives an image. A machine listens and renders what it hears visually: rhythm, tone, emotional texture, modes of thought. The result is printed and taken home.
Hören Sagen – Hear Say asks a fundamental question: What does a machine make of what it hears — and who determined what it would make? It operates within a framework shaped by humans long before it ever listened: training data, parameters, invisible assumptions and interests. We only see the output — as an image.
The project follows a core principle of Co.Lab Beta Now: treating aesthetic experience as a tool for inquiry. What emerges when we watch a machine interpret our language — and hold its reading in our hands?

Ozan Tezvaran (b. 1996) is a multidisciplinary designer and a graduate of the Postdigital Lutherie Master’s programme at the University of Arts Linz, Austria. With a background bridging the visual and sonic arts, he has showcased his work at Ars Electronica, Skaņu Mežs, and Unsafe+Sounds. Alongside his artistic practice, he runs a studio that provides design solutions for institutions, NGOs, and fellow artists.

Theresa Haas is a designer and animator working across digital and analog animation techniques. Her practice explores motion as both a visual language and a material, using experimental and process-driven approaches to communicate complex ideas in intuitive ways.

Marcel Dziewulski is a graphic designer working across visual communication, publication design, and experimental media. Co-founder of Büro Dö, a design practice focused on identities and creative direction. Work explores the intersections of art, design, and technology through cultural, commercial, and research-driven projects.

Tina Frank is a designer, artist and educator. Her practice centres on translating music, data and language into visual experience, at the intersection of information design and visual arts. She has presented audiovisual performances and installations at venues including Ars Electronica, Centre Pompidou and festivals such as Sonar, Atonal and Mutek. Frank is Professor and Head of Visual Communication at Kunstuniversität Linz, where she established Co.Lab Beta Now in 2023.

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